Posted on 03/15/2022 9:55:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Watchdog group Project Veritas published a video on Tuesday showing FBI agents raiding the home of one of their journalists. In the video, which was taken in November 2021, armed agents are shown banging on the door. After entering the home, they shouted, “Let me see your hands!”
The footage also shows agents holding rifles and searching the journalist’s home. They went through his bedroom, kitchen, and closets, digging through his belongings. He can be heard telling agents “[his] hands are up.”
Last November, RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar reported:
Friday afternoon Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe announced that the homes of current and former Project Veritas journalists had been raided by FBI agents Thursday morning and that he had been served a Grand Jury subpoena with a cover letter requesting that he not make the existence of the subpoena known.
In an email to its subscribers, the organization explained that “[t]he raid and seizures were executed at the behest of the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice despite Attorney General Merrick Garland’s vow to respect press freedoms.”
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe excoriated the Justice Department’s actions, calling them “an effort by the government to intimidate and silence us as journalists,” and that the group would “stand firm to vindicate our own First Amendment rights, fight for the rights of our fellow journalists, and all Americans.”
The FBI’s raid was reportedly related to the publication of parts of a diary that belonged to Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden. National File journalist Patrick Howley published excerpts of what is believed to be her personal journal in October 2020, which featured entries discussing inappropriate showers with her father.
Project Veritas explained that “tipsters” approached the organization, claiming they possessed a copy of Ashley’s diary. The organization, after receiving the documents, attempted to corroborate the veracity of its contents.
At the end of the day, we made the ethical decision that because, in part, we could not determine if the diary was real, if the diary in fact belonged to Ashley Biden, or if the contents of the diary occurred, we could not publish the diary and any part thereof.
The organization handed the diary over to law enforcement and never published any part of it.
Now, we have video footage showing how the raid proceeded and, predictably, it is not pretty. It is a blatant attack on the First Amendment, and appears to be an attempt to intimidate a media outlet. Project Veritas has not yet indicated what its next steps are, but it does not seem out of the realm of possibility that the group is considering legal action. The group hired a Washington law firm in December to look into the raid. It probably won’t take long before the group takes action.
FBI Raid on PV Journalist Shows Armed Agents Clutching Weapons & Ransacking Home at Biden DOJ Order 2:19
And the Fourth.
Journalistic freedom only exists where journalistic integrity does not.
Didn’t people originally want the Juicy thing turned over to the FBI?
Can you just Imagine how they might have treated him?
They have O’Keefe in prison or worse if they could.
Not even pretense of free press or free speech.
Hopefully Project Veritas made copies of the diary and have them hidden.
It kind of makes one want to see what’s in the diary.
The whole thing smells like an FBI ploy, aimed at getting search warrants and whatever leverage they could extract from the search materials.
This is how the FBI lets you know they hate and fear you.
It’s just the mostly conservative rank and file doing their job
Yeah, that old chestnut.
I couldn’t sleep, and just looking at the titles of the posts this am I see more and more glaring documentation that we are no longer a free nation. We have selective justice, freedom of speech only if it is the ‘correct’ speech, ever decreasing privacy, and have to fight people who want to dictate to us what our children are taught. Efforts to fight back are derisively labeled as populism, nationalism, white supremacy, and Fascism. It’s going to take a lot to turn this around.
.....” I see more and more glaring documentation that we are no longer a free nation”........
When they began cancelling and banning free speech, controlling social media, and media networks in lock step with the left agenda - just to name a few indicators. Yes, we have stopped being a free nation and I suspect it’s going to get worse.
Apparently, since the obama-filled deep state was unsuccessful in destroying 2A, they decided to try to eliminate 1A (which they believe is the needed precursor to going after 2A again.)
Sh!t lime this is why Oklahoma City Happened.
They want us to fight back so they can call us domestic terrorists.
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The FBI is TOTALLY CORRUPT!! NOT ONE HONEST PERSON WORKS THERE NOW!
. . . and the Republicans in Congress once again expressed their outrage at the trampling of Constitutional rights by . . .
The Great Reset is underway.
Our redemption is far beyond the reach of elections.
Ashley’s diary must have something on the crime family for the
Project Veritas journalists had been raided by FBI agents.
What other events will occur when Biden is out of the country for his meetings?.
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